Starting Up: Hiring the right person is crucial to a startup's success

April 3, 2008

The two determining factors of a startup's success are typically the idea and the people. While one can't predict or control when the idea is developed, a fledgling company has full control over the people it hires.

Management gurus have long extolled the virtue of "getting the right people on the bus," and we all know there is great cost in hiring the wrong people. One of the chief culprits in the demise of small companies is hiring people who don't fit into an organizational culture.

By Vincent Martino - Special to the Idaho Statesman

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